painted a Flashman in Comstar colours today. my Level II is coming along slowly but steadily #battletech

as for Tsunoda, it's easy to be lured by the siren song of his occasional flashes of pace, but it became clear those really were just flashes and he simply isn't capable of stringing it together on anything approaching a consistent basis a while ago. shame, but it is what it is

people really need to let go of the ''Red Bull should've hired Sainz'' stick we've known for a while that camp Sainz and camp Verstappen didn't get along. if Sainz doesn't want to leave his dad at home, he's not getting into any team that Verstappen is driving for, simple as that, unfortunately

I'd much rather the sport makes a stink about this sort of TV direction than 10 combined seconds of WAGs during a race broadcast but the priorities are really, really fucked here

re. Antonelli shitstorm: people obviously like ragging on Marko and RBR as they are F1's villains and all, but the TV direction deserves some shit here too. They knew what they were doing by playing GP's radio without showing a replay.

Anyways I was the only person wearing a Mercedes shirt in a Dutch family watch-along of yesterday's GP. I end up in this position pretty frequently.

I just cannot fathom how a guy who's provided F1 commentary for longer than I've been on this planet can look at a first year driver going wide on the CAR BALANCE GIGA HELL track and conclude this must be some dastardly Mercedes plot

btw I was forced to watch Dutch commentary from Ziggo's old team today and hoo boy.

McLaren is a team with some fantastic history and I hate rooting against them but I want them to lose this drivers' title just to teach them a lesson on playing games with the championship

I know these aren't particularly controversial statements but I am in genuine awe of what a fucking mess McLaren have made of this title fight, and how badly Piastri has collapsed since Zandvoort

That wasn't totally terrible.

McLaren is in a bit of a strategic jam here, I think

I'd love the title battle to go to the last race but I also think it'd be a cool storyline if a guy who's so outspoken about his mental struggles, and who's gotten absolutely crucified for every single error by people pushing a narrative, takes the title a race early

I love my double jointed fingers!!!! Especially once the weather gets really cold!!!!

That was abysmal. Leave this track for the bikes, please and thanks.

Another week, another bandaid fix to the 2026 regulations before they ever even turn a wheel. Sure hope Audi doesn't leave the moment they learn winning in F1 is actually pretty difficult!

Templar. I was a Mechwarrior 4 girl, and this is one of those designs that never left me (and seems to have only gotten better with age). I don't own it in plastic yet. One to rectify, one of these days.

happy mclaren double dsq day

Got screwed out of a really cool job because I failed the psych interview. Recruiter was wildly enthusiastic about me, selection committee was unanimous about inviting me back, completely and utterly blew out every single assessment and test only to get failed by a psych graduate (derogatory)

porsche still not beating the ''we only participate in series where we win all the time'' allegations

got gatekept out of the dutch lolita community discord today because this apparently isn't lolita enough. i think you could ask chatgpt or whatever other ai slop to gen ''gothic lolita'' and it'd look less on the nose than this dress

Can't help but wonder just how much leeway Mir's title five years ago bought him, and when that leeway's gonna run out

we might actually get a real McLaren livery next year

looking at this like, "I painted this? With *my* fucked up fingers?"

tried contrast paints and some other tips and tricks from some really lovely folks. really happy with how it turned out, and glad i didn't totally fuck up one of my fave assault mechs! #battletech

shock horror: sometimes it really is better to leave making the rules to the people who have been making the rules for a few decades now shock horror #2: racing drivers are selfish

I'm enough of a bitch to admit there's some schadenfreude in F1 fans finding out all over again that the rules pushed for by the drivers they deify are Really Bad, Actually

that last sentence is absolutely mint - ''there IS a difference between not liking a rule and not following it'' I think these rules are garbage but I also get that Piastri was in the wrong here. In this case it's cathartic because I'm a Merc/Ferrari girl. my guy's been on the other side plenty.

it genuinely boggles my mind that people who *know* what this year's racing rules are like can look at this incident and go ''yep, Piastri was hard done by here'', but then people also thought he was hard done by in Silverstone somehow

and some receipts, just for fun piastri didn't have a front wheel alongside antonelli's wing mirror until he locked up. it's as slam dunk as it gets

you could argue turning in on some dweeb divebombing you isn't a winning move by Antonelli, and you'd probably be right, but that doesn't matter by the letter of the law. it's a very clear cut penalty

the stewards view a lock-up as the driver not being in control of their car by default, and have done so for many years (at least since the start of the V6 era, possibly longer). the rest of the book went out of the window the moment Piastri locked up

absolutely astounding that people think the Piastri penalty is ''harsh'', but then Piastri might be the single most coddled driver in the wider F1 fanbase

That race was pretty good. Oscar Piastri is a jabroni.

the soft looks pretty booty cheeks, honestly, so I don't think this one's done yet

fuck op81 that's all I'll say

Long way to go on the painting journey but I'm enjoying it a lot and I haven't enjoyed arts & crafts adjacent stuff in over a decade

On a better subject than that, I painted another miniature today. I paint with dyspraxia, hypermobility of my fingers and no meaningful depth perception up close, and this is my third ever miniature. I'm really proud of how it turned out. #battletech

you ever just have something totally shitfuck your day, and you can't be mad about it because that person really didn't mean to shitfuck your day?

(ps: if you're reading this, I probably don't find your opinions annoying. there's just certain people on here who do have very reddit-tier opinions, and I mean that in a completely derogatory way. I like griping about it.)

another greatest hit from the top minds of reddit: why doesn't F1 do yellow flags like Indycar does? Let's ask Marcus Ericsson about that one!

like the man himself has been very open and honest about his quali pace having dropped off since last year when he was still driving for Mercedes, it's the unfortunate reality of 2025-spec Hamilton

''ferrari bad'' is a really boring, clapped out narrative when Hamilton's teammate is sticking that car on the second row btw

My only consolation is that Piastri's revival may have been greatly exaggerated.

Spin the bottle and find out which Williams driver gets fucked over by the team's shitty tyre prep this week!

There's really no reason Piastri should be closer to Russell than to his teammate on *this* track, in *that* car. I think people were getting far too excited after FP1

there's more waffle in this F1TV commentary than there is in all of Belgium

It always feels like Tsunoda is one breakthrough or good weekend away from making that Red Bull seat work, and that breakthrough or good weekend just never comes, and it's so fucking frustrating

in reply to a comment about Formula E feeling like a marketing exercise always chasing its mythical ''target audience'' neat comment, I think

shaking off the rust with a comstar-ish templar